Oscars: Leonardo DiCaprio wins but Spotlight’s on Priyanka Chopra

Leonardo DiCaprio won the Best Actor Oscar but it was Spotlight which earned the Best Picture award. Alejandro G Inarritu and Brie Larson brought up the winner’s end with two Oscars between them. But guess who won the red carpet? Bollywood’s very own Priyanka Chopra.

Priyanka Chopra has won the red carpet at Oscars 2016. But the real glory belonged to six-time nominee Leonardo DiCaprio who took home that much-awaited Best Actor award.(AFP)

After five previous misses, Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar for his grunting, gruff performance in Alejandro Inarritu’s The Revenant at Oscars 2016 on Monday. “Climate change is real,” said DiCaprio. “It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species. ... Let us not take our planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.” Inarritu also won the Best Director award for the film. It is his second win in a row.

In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama Spotlight took Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday, where remarks on lack of diversity in Hollywood dominated proceedings. Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests won over the favoured frontier epic, The Revenant. The well-crafted procedural, led by a strong ensemble cast, had lagged in the lead-up to the Oscars, losing ground to the flashier filmmaking of Inarritu’s film.

Best Actress went to Brie Larson, the 26-year-old breakout of the mother-son captive drama Room.

Meanwhile, India couldn’t get enough of Priyanka Chopra walking the Oscar red carpet and giving away the Oscar for Best Film Editing. The award went to Mad Max Fury Road which won a record number of Oscars.

10.10 am: Inarritu for winning the Best Director Oscar: “Leo you are The Revenant. Thanks for giving the film your soul, your heart. Thanks Tom Hardy, thanks Chivo... This is for my father.” He goes on beyond the allotted time limit.

10.06 am: The big award is here. The Oscar for Best Director goes to Alejandro G Inarritu for The Revenant. This is his second Oscar in a row.

9.20 am: It is time to count how much money you can raise selling Girl Scout cookies to a bunch of millionaires at Oscars 2016. The answer is $60, 243. Surprised much?

9.14 am: Asif Kapadia wins the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for Amy.

9.10 am: “This is what happens when determined women get together,” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy says as she thanks“men who champion women”.

9.08 am: The Oscar for Best Documentary Short goes to A Girl in the River (Pakistan). As Louis CK says the winner of this award will not make a dime off it unlike others who came to Oscars winners and will go back millionaires.

7.30 am: What if black actors starred in best picture nominees? Hilarity! Chris Rock shows us that protests come in all forms with a sketch starring black actors in The martian, Danish Girl and Joy. Tracy Morgan as Danish Girl was the best ever.

7.20 am: The Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay goes to Charles Randolph and Adam McKay for The Big Short.

7.18 am: The Oscar for Best Original Screenplay goes to Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy for Spotlight. McCarthy on children being sexually abused by priests of Catholic church, “We have to make sure this never happens again.”

7.15 am: Chris Rock goes again, “Race is not the only issue at Oscars today. You can’t ask women what they are wearing, you gotta #AskHerMore. This is not sexism, it is because all men are wearing the same thing. If George Clooney showed up in a lime green suit with a swan coming out of his *ss, someone will ask, ‘what are you wearing George?’”